What are the precautions after tonsillectomy?

  Although tonsillectomy is not a major surgery, there are risks and sometimes complications can occur.  So after tonsillectomy, you should pay attention to: 1. Bleeding after surgery: Do not swallow the saliva after surgery, spit it out at any time. Or spit in the hand paper in order to observe the bleeding situation. If there is a small amount of blood in the spit is a normal phenomenon, if the amount of blood spit or the whole mouth spit blood should immediately ask the doctor to check or stop the bleeding. The bleeding is most likely to occur within 5 hours after surgery, and should be closely observed during this period, especially in pediatric patients with frequent swallowing movements, which should be suspected of possible bleeding and reported to the doctor immediately.  2.Fast 2-4 hours after surgery (6 hours after general anesthesia), if there is no bleeding after 2-4 hours, you can eat some cold liquid food, such as ice cream, ice cream, milk, etc., avoid hot drinks.  3, 2 days after surgery into the liquid food, 7 days to eat semi-liquid food, warm is appropriate, do not eat hard food too early, so as not to bruise the trauma caused by bleeding. Don’t refuse to eat for fear of pain after surgery, but encourage eating, which will help speed up the healing of the wound.  4. Do not cough or cough violently or sneeze after surgery, and open your mouth and breathe deeply or hold the tip of your tongue against your palate when you have sneezing aura to prevent bleeding. Try to speak as little as possible on the day after surgery, and try to speak later to reduce scar adhesions in the tonsillar fossa.  5, 1-2 days after the surgery, a layer of white film will grow on the traumatic surface of the tonsil fossa, which is a normal phenomenon. At this time, you should pay attention to keep your mouth clean and gargle with 1:5000 furacilin solution or light saline to protect the healthy growth of the white film and help the traumatic surface heal as soon as possible.  6. Tonsils are not an organ of pronunciation, so removal of tonsils will not affect pronunciation. However, due to the removal of tonsils or local scar contraction, or change the resonance cavity, more or less have some effect on the voice, which is not a big problem for ordinary people, but should be cautious for actors and voice workers.